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N. PETERS, PNOTO-UTMGGRAFHER. WASHINGTON. D t;A

item11. Quatre EDWARD B. TURNIPSED, OF COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA.

Letters Patent No. 108,536, dated October 18, 1870.

IMPRQVEMENT IN BEE-HIVES The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making paxt of the same `my invention, I will now proceed to describe fully its construction and methodof operation.` A represents the frame ot' the bee-hive, which consists ofthe base a, posts a, and shelves a.

B Bl B2 represent the drawers, the two latter of which are exactly alike in their construction, being provided with board ends and top and bottom, with 1 glass sides. They have, also, suit-able orifices for-the entrance and exit of the bees.

The drawer B is similar to the others, except that it is provided with a wire bottom, as is shown in tig. 3

that they may be easily taken apart when desired.

G represents enameled cloth, which is secured in place about the sides and top by means of buttons. By removing any portion of the sides, the condition ofthe hive at any time may be easily ascertained.

lhey are "all put together with screws, in order The specific advantages of the construction shown may be enumerated as follows:

The .drawers may be used independently of each other, and one may be removed when desired without disturbing the others. By means of the wire-cloth bottom the bees are protected from the moth. It -is a well-knownfact among bee-keepers that the eggs of this insect are usually carried into the hive upon the feet'otthe bees, but, as in my hive, the latter are obliged to pass over the wire, the eggs are liable to fall through beneath the hive. In case, however, the worm is hatched within the hive, the chips out by it or the bees, which form the basis for the webbing. necessarily fall through the wire netting, and the Hoor is l always clean.

Having thus fully described my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

The hive described, consisting of the wooden frame A a (t a2, the drawel-"s B B2, (the drawer B having the wire bottom 11,) and the enameled-cloth siding G, attached by the buttons c, for the purpose of affording easy access tothe hive, all constructed and arranged as and for the purpose specified.

EDWARD B. TURNIPSEED, M. 1).

Witnesses JACOB L. PoLLoCK, 'lnoMAs J. THACKAM. 

